Baccio Maria Bacci (1888 - 1974); Italian painter of the Tuscan Novocento movement. He also published various books on contemporary art movements. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccio_Maria_Bacci] Baccio Maria Bacci was born in Florence in 1888. He came from a family of artists but nevertheless his parents prevented him from studying art. This may be one of the reasons why he ran away from home when he was 17 and went to Munich and later Nuremberg. Eight months later he returned to Florence and was advised to enroll at the Academy where he was taught by Adolfo de Carolis and Giovanni Fattori. But he did not get his diploma because he stopped studying a month before the awards and concentrated on painting independently. He also showed at two exhibitions, the first at Palazzo Gondi in 1910 and the second in 1912, a personal exhibition at the Società Artistica in Piazza Donatello. In 1913 he went to Paris where he associated with intellectuals and got to know Apollinaire, and his art began to become more Futuristic and abstract. From 1915 to 1918 he enlisted in the army and fought in the First World War. After the War he exhibited in Geneva in 1920 at an avant-garde exhibition and in 1921 at the great exhibition of the Fiorentina Primaverile. In 1922, together with his friends Primo Conti, Raffaello Franchi, Mario Tinti and Curzio Malaparte, Bacci came up with the idea of founding an Arts Association in Florence but the project never came to fruition. In 1929 he started to get involved in a new job that was to keep him busy for years to come – that of the fresco cycle for the Verna Convent depicting events in the life of St. Francis. He got married to Elena Croon in 1933 and they had three children. During the period up until the outbreak of the Second World War he lived and worked in Fiesole and his home became a retreat not only for artists but also for writers and... [http://www.800artstudio.com/en-paintings-for-sale/artists-on-catalogue/baccio-maria-bacci/] undefined

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